GaaGo

[small white mayoman]

No my Internet is perfect as I watched the golf on now tv .
No one is expecting them to show every game on free to air , however would it be too much to expect them to show one game on a Saturday during the championship when possibly 10 games were been played ?
The championship will be as good as over in 8 weeks time so its not that much to expect imo.

[small white mayoman]

Surely gaa go has to be a complete and utter failure.
Yesterday for example there must have been 10 or 11 games been played between hurling and football yet not one was on any channel to view for free , so much for promoting the games.
I had signed up for the season pass, however the quality was so bad for the mayo v New York match , buffering , picture quality ect , I just cancelled it and won't be going back and definitely won't be paying 12 euro to watch a single game.
So yesterday evening instead of watching a hurling or football match my choice on rte was rugby or watch the golf on sky , so golf it was , turned out to be a great choice in the end 😀

Is it possible your Internet isn't good enough? I've never had any problems with GAAGo in the few years it's been about. I am abroad this week and was able to watch the Derry game which I could not have done otherwise. Its great.

With regards to the perpetual argument that more games should be on free to air, this has been explained over and over and over. RTE are not a dedicated GAA station, they show general entertainment, news, lifestyle, cooking, documentaries, sports etc. They are already showing 2 full games today from the Munster Hurling championship, as well as highlight packages last night and tonight. You cannot expect them to show GAA morning noon and night all weekend.

As regards their highlights package,  don't get me started on that .

[Armagh18]

Lads a dodgy fire stick is your friend here

[RedHand88]

No my Internet is perfect as I watched the golf on now tv .
No one is expecting them to show every game on free to air , however would it be too much to expect them to show one game on a Saturday during the championship when possibly 10 games were been played ?
The championship will be as good as over in 8 weeks time so its not that much to expect imo.

There are 5 hours of hurling on RTE today. A majority of people in Ireland do not watch GAA or take a very passing interest.

You want more games on because you yourself watch alot of sport.

[small white mayoman]

No , my first problem is with the gaa go . I was willing to pay for it but unfortunately I couldn't watch the game I paid for so therefore cancelled my subscription .
As regards watching more games,  I couldn't care less , It's not my job to promote gaelic games , I'll just watch other sports 👍

[Hound]

GAAgo is decent when you are abroad and worthwhile.

But it's a shambles at home. Poor quality and poor value. I'm amazed at the people falling for the GAA/RTE propaganda and defending it on here! 

People comparing it to paying to a Sky subscription are being disingenuous (or have been misled by those being disingenuous). Sky Sports contains a massive range of different sports and price is not dependent on what you watch. GAAgo is a pay per view service more similar to Sky Box Office.

The premier league, which is pure money driven, tried to bring in a pay per view service on top of their Sky/BT offering. A 'season ticket' element similar to GAAgo was offered as well as single games. However, the English fans were tuned in enough to realize the massive difference between PPV and the general Sky Sports subscription, they complained and the premier league were forced to back track and abandon it.

There should be 4 games on TV every weekend during the season. Plenty of room in the schedule,  they've no problem finding room for 3 or 4 games every single day during world cups. Virgin/TV3 were effectively priced out of it by GAA/RTE looking to gouge us.

And there is absolutely no reason GAAgo could not be free. Could be funded by a sponsor and by adverts. And if it was free there would be considerably more people tuning in, which would increase sponsorship and advertising value.

If people have enough money to pay for this mediocre service, then I've absolutely no problem with them spending their excess cash however they wish, but the narrative that it's great value and we're lucky to have it is absolute nonsense.

[smort]

Have RTÉ ever looked in to adding a new channel, RTÉ Sport say?

[AustinPowers]

Have RTÉ ever looked in to adding a new channel, RTÉ Sport say?

There's no reason why they can't  show some things on the RTE news channel. Live matches  are shown there sometimes, and they could have a Seo Sport style preview show  there during the week as well

In the mornings, they regularly show live video footage of  Claire Byrne's RTE radio show . No reason why they couldn't have Des Cahill on Sunday sport there, or a final score  type show as well.

TSG tries to squeeze in  a lot of  highlights/punditry . A midweek show could fill in the gaps  and look at some things in more  detail